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A Second Chance, Silenced

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:03; Written by Carla Pineda

A Look Into Holes That Sunk A Youth Program on Adams Church Row Due to missteps and community pushback, the doors of YouthBuild Charter School, a school created in collaboration with Save Our Future and McCarty Memorial Christian Church on Adams Boulevard, opened and closed in what seemed like the blink…

Classic African American Films in Our Community

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:14; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Local resident Pete Carter has been hosting an afternoon of historical black films every last Friday of the month for 10 years. The films exclude blacksploitation films and focus on gems from the early 1900’s up to the ‘60’s including work from great pioneer black directors like Spencer Williams (who…

State Prison Realignment Program

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:51; Written by Carla Pineda

What It Means to Our Community Budget pressures and a Supreme Court decision are forcing federal prisons to lower their populations by 30,000 prisoners creating much community concern and rumor. Known as the ‘State Prison Realignment Program’ federal prisons will be transferring responsibility for lower-level offenders to local correctional systems. A…

Mid-City Development Creates Community Problem

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:10; Written by Carla Pineda

A group of Mid-City residents living atop the hill on 16th Place above Venice and San Vicente, woke up one morning to once again enjoy their amazing view of the Hollywood Hills. What they found instead was The Wall. Local residents using the Venice link to San Vicente also realized…

African Marketplace and Cultural Faire - Not This Year

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:06; Written by African Marketplace Inc

Is the African Marketplace and Cultural Faire happening this year? The African Marketplace and Cultural Faire will NOT be happening at the end of this summer at Rancho Cienega Park or in Leimert Park as so many have asked and speculated. The 25 year legacy of the AMP that garnered…

Council District 10 Hosts the 9th Annual HPOZ Conference

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:13; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Council District 10 and the United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council (UNNC) district were chosen this year to host the 9th Annual Citywide HPOZ Conference, sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning and the Los Angeles Conservancy. The all-day event was held on May 7th at the McCarty Memorial Christian…

MTA-Leimert Park Uproar

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:33; Written by Damien Goodman

Metropolitan Transit Authority Decision Causes Uproar in African American Community Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a Metropolitan Transit Authority Board member spearheaded the movement to persuade the MTA to support and fund $120 million for a Crenshaw-LAX light rail stop at Leimert Park, an historic center of Los Angeles African American culture. He…

School Reports

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00; Written by Gavin Glynn

School bells are ringing louder in West Adams! Marguerite LaMotte was re-elected to the LAUSD School Board last March 8th, 2011. She was backed by the powerful UTLA union with $325,000 dollars toward her campaign. Ms. LaMotte has faithfully approved all raises for teachers. - Arlington Heights middle school added 17…

Does the City Attorney Have an Ace Up His Sleeve?

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:34; Written by Laura Meyers

One of the biggest issues in West Adams and throughout the city is code enforcement. Or, better said, NON-code enforcement. HPOZ board members everywhere complain that neither Building & Safety nor the Housing Department takes seriously the responsibility of enforcing historic preservation requirements. New developments are approved with no oversight…

Gramercy Park Resident Sends Film Profits To Charities

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Gramercy Park resident Brian Ide is the founder of ReDistribute, an innovative philanthropic model that connects the profits of film to the needs of a wide variety of charities focused on social issues. ReDistributeis guided by a governing principle: After costs and salaries are paid, every penny of their profit goes…

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A Second Chance, Silenced

Classic African American Films in Our Community

State Prison Realignment Program

Mid-City Development Creates Community Problem

African Marketplace and Cultural Faire - Not This Year

Council District 10 Hosts the 9th Annual HPOZ Conference

MTA-Leimert Park Uproar

School Reports

Does the City Attorney Have an Ace Up His Sleeve?

Gramercy Park Resident Sends Film Profits To Charities

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Established in August of 2008 by writer, artist Dianne V. Lawrence, The Neighborhood News covers the events, people, history, politics and historic architecture of communities throughout the Mid-City and West Adams area in Los Angeles Council District 10.

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